However, Kahlo's family doesn't share that excitement The late painter's family released a statement on Instagram claiming that Mattel "does not have the proper authorization to use the image of Frida Kahlo."

The statement says that Kahlo's great-niece Mara Romeo is the sole owner of the rights to her image. However, Mattel claims that they properly secured the rights through a Florida-based organization called the Frida Kahlo Corporation.

"This Barbie doll is meant to honor Frida Kahlo's great legacy and story," a representative for Mattel said in a statement provided to INSIDER. "Mattel secured permission and worked in close partnership with the Frida Kahlo Corporation, the owner of all rights related to Frida Kahlo, to make this doll."

"The rights of Frida Kahlo were bought from Isolda Pinedo Kahlo (niece of Frida Kahlo) in 2005 she and her family received a large amount of money as payment for the rights," a representative for the Frida Kahlo Corporation told INSIDER. "For over a decade the Frida Kahlo Corporation is dedicated to educating, sharing and preserving Frida Kahlo's legacy."

However, Romeo's lawyer, Pablo Sangri, told AFP News Agency that the corporation "doesn't hold, never held and will never hold the rights to Frida's image."

The doll is part of the Inspiring Women line. Mattel

Romeo says that her main concern with Mattel's doll is not just the legality of it, but also what she feels is an inaccurate representation of the late artist.

"I would have liked the doll to have traits more like Frida's, not this doll with light-colored eyes," Romeo told AFP. "I would have liked her to have a unibrow, for her clothes to be made by Mexican artisans. It should be a doll that represents everything my aunt represented, her strength. It should be a Frida that represents Mexico."

She and her lawyer, Sangri, are hoping to discuss a redesign with Mattel.

"We will talk to them about regularizing this situation, and by regularizing I mean talking about the appearance of the doll, its characteristics, the history the doll should have to match what the artist really was," Sangri told the Associated Press.